Improvement in car-couplings



WILEY KENYON.

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

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JIM/WM mm PATENT OFFICE.

WILEY KENYON, OF ORAWFQRDSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,554, dated May 7,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILEY KENYON, of Orawfordsville, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and usefulGravitating Link for Coupling Railway 0 rs; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and correct description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing making apart of this specification, inwhich- Figure l of the drawing represents a plan View of my invention;Fi 2 is a longitudinal section; and Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

My invention relates to means for coupling and disconnecting railwaycars; and consists in a novel arrangement of devices intended to cheapen, si m plit'y. and render safe and elfective the process of suchconnection and disconnection.

A A of the drawing represents the bumpersoftwocal-shaving,respectively,springsmarked c 0. Immediately underneatheach of these bumpers I arrange my draw-heads, marked B, and unite themwith said bumpers by means of the adjustable staples D and theguard-pins or bolts E. A pin, n, is passed through the proper openingsin staple 1) under the drawhead, and thereby secures for such draw-headthe pitch or inclination the operator may desire it to have. Thedraw-bars B are mortised in their front ends in the manner shown onFigs. 3 and 4, to receive the coupling-pin G, next mentioned. Mycoupling-pin is formed in the shape of a circular rod with flattened andenlarged ends, as shown at n. These enlarged flattened ends haveshoulders,o, adapted to engage with the sides of the drawhead outsidethe mortise and hold the cars securely together. This couplingpin hasalso a rod extending at right angles therewith from its center, marked2!, to the end of which is attached the removable ball or weight w andits ring, y. When desirable the ball may be screwed upon the end of rod2 and a cord affixed in the ring, thereby enabling the operator touncouple the cars from the platform.

I claim as my invention- The coupling apparatus herein described,consisting of the draw heads B under the bumpers, and connectedtherewith by means of the adjustable staples D and guard-bolts E, andarranged, as described, for connection by means of the double-headed pinG, having rod 11 and removable ball and ring 3 when the several partsare constructed and arranged substantially as specified.

\VILEY KENYON.

Attest:

W. T. BRUSH, GEORGE D. HURLEY.

